Our History

Two Rivers CDC is a Native American organization. The Executive Director, Daucey Brewington is a citizen of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. He is a service-disabled veteran spending more than nine years as an Air Force officer serving as a pilot and staff officer having graduated from the US Air Force Academy. After which, he began his first company in 1987 providing services to federal and state agencies as well as large and small businesses. Later he formed Blackstar Services Inc specifically to support veterans. Blackstar is certified as Service-Disabled, Veteran Owned, Native American, and as a disadvantaged business.

In 2008 he was selected to oversee a Dept of Defense program for Native American owned small businesses. Over the next 17 years, he worked with federal, state, local, tribal and individually owned businesses. In addition, he was asked to provide training to federal workers on tribal relationships and government to government interactions. Thus, learning first-hand about the disconnect and/or misunderstandings of cultural differences.

One such disconnect led to the creation of a joint VA/tribal program providing cultural sensitivity training to VA personnel providing services to Native American veterans with PTSD. The program was conducted "off the grid" in an isolated mountainous setting surrounded by nature. Mr. Brewington was a facilitator for several years. He also participated in a VA sponsored program on mindfulness-based stress reduction.

Just as the COVID pandemic began, the concept of a venue to provide cross cultural events, training, retreats and special emphasis programs for veterans arose. As the concept began to evolve, Mr. Brewington reached out to some of his classmates. He explained the VA program for Native veterans with PTSD. He also provided a brief history of Natives serving in the military at over twice the rate of any ethnic designation as well other milestones.

Within two weeks of this presentation several alumni donated the funds to build the covered firepit. That swift reaction was the impetus to complete the center. One of the first group sessions was a roundtable to discuss more effective outreach to veterans.